Offline Involuntarily — Five years ago, the main challenge for data-hungry business travelers was finding a hotel that offered high-speed Internet access. Then came a shift to wireless and even free connections. — But these days, the top priority for many is simply getting consistent …

5 Things That Went From Buzz to Bust — The message of this page is, Beware all hype. Here are five phenomena that captivated the media for a spell, then turned out to be less than huge. Our bad — SNAKES ON A PLANE, AUDIENCE DISEMBARKS — When the words Snakes on a Plane hit the Internet …

AOL Chief Has a View, a Long One — If AOL were being dressed up for a sale, as has been rumored on and off for several years, Randy Falco is an odd choice to be the new chief executive. — As Mr. Falco notes, he is hardly a short-term guy. Before starting at Time Warner's AOL unit this month …

Digg continues to battle phony stories — Digg continues to crack down on users who plant phony stories on behalf of marketers, recently deleting a user who posted a story about a company that offered to compensate him. — The news aggregate site, which allows users to play editor and decide …

Coming in January: "Month of Apple Bugs" — A pair of security researchers has picked January 2007 as the starting point for a month-long project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple's OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it.

Second Life Adds Its Second Millionth Resident — Virtual world Second Life just surpassed two million registered users, exactly two months after it hit one million residents. Yes, the churn rate is high and only 829,537 have logged on in the last two months, but that is still phenomenal growth.

Double Fusion Receives New Round of Venture Capital — Breaking News — Double Fusion, an in-game advertising company, has received an infusion of 26 million dollars from a group of venture capitalists, including Norwest Venture Partners, Time Warner, Hearst Corporation and others.

Top news searches differ from top web searches — When is a search term not a search term? That's a question worth asking after looking at a year's worth of search results on Google, Yahoo and AOL. — Google has just released its 2006 Year-End Google Zeitgeist.

My Battle with MGM Over Wargames.Com — For the past three months I've been privately engaged in a time-consuming dispute with Nathan J. Hole, a lawyer representing MGM Studios who claims that Wargames.Com, a domain that I've owned since April 16, 1998, is the rightful property of the film company …

Peerflix Swaps One Problem For Another — After a year long beta period and another year of operation, Peerflix is ditching its barter model of swapping DVDs. Until today, users swapped DVDs in the Peerflix marketplace, and the company took a $.99 transaction fee for the exchange.

Matsushita to offer new lithium battery — TOKYO - Japanese electronics maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it will begin mass production of a new lithium-ion battery that is safe from the overheating problems that prompted a massive recall of Sony Corp. batteries this year.

Sharecropping the long tail — A while back I wrote that Web 2., by putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value …